We got the high-range boozimeter from the safe, but it burned out instantly.

Meh, that’s not even a lukewarm take. It’s a common sentiment.

BUT

It won’t make embarrassed teenagers any less horny.

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Sure, it’s hypothetically possible that it would slow down the mega corps. I wouldn’t be holding my breath, though. IDK, call me a cynic.

Pretty much any housing changes will need to be written to be bulletproof, otherwise they’ll loophole the ever-loving shit out of it.

I do see one problem with this type of regulation – if you say “no more than 3 homes per entity”, the “homes 4 rent” megalandlords will just create thousands of “homes 4 rent asdf” shell companies to get around the limit. I foresee tons of cat-and-mouse accounting shenanigans trying to dodge this sort of requirement.

A simpler method would be to increase both the property taxes and the homestead exemption, tuned so that individual homeowner pays about the same.

Limiting Airbnbs would help, too. Require city or county licensing for all guest accommodations, maybe, and have a set number of licenses?

Also, I don’t want to try to kill off all housing rentals. Think about college housing, about people moving halfway across the country for a job, people who’ve just gotten divorced… there are lots of circumstances where it makes more sense to rent for a time than to pony up $$$ to buy a house or a condo. In a functional market, this would be, say, 10% of housing, and you wouldn’t have the absurdity of “I pay $3000 in rent because the bank doesn’t think I’ll pay a $2000 mortgage”.

Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not miss needing to suffer through intro animations before the real site would load, “designed for Internet Explorer 4”, or the endless ad popups of the era.

Points for nostalgia though

SO SAY WE ALL!

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The 1999 cinematic masterpiece starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser? Great flick.

slow cooker, skillet, sheet pan, wooden cutting board, and chef’s knife

Eh, you need a few more implements. Spatula? Ladle? Measuring spoons?

But yeah, it’s not a ton of stuff to be able to cook lots of things.

If you read it out loud, you should hear it with ease

I’ve started taking notes. “Next time, I want to start out by doing this or that.”

Then my only problem is starting the next time and going “Oooh, what about this other thing?” :D

For…decades?

I had to go back and read up on the early history of video games. SNES came out in 1991, and yeah - looking at arcade games, Computer Space came out in 1971.

Video games are older than I realized.

What does algae have to do with extinction events? It seems like you’re using that as a sort of “gotcha!” line, but I don’t see the connection.

If cashier isn’t a useful job, why are these mega-corporations trying to get me to do it for free?

Aldi backs up that tradeoff with commensurately lower prices, though.

“intensive” isn’t the right term here, IMO. Pushing me to do the cashier work via self-checkout is more effort than what I do at Aldi. It doesn’t need to be “carry this pallet across the Grand Canyon” to be objectionable.

As someone who also rode in cars in the 80s, I call BS. Cars today are superior in a lot of ways like fuel economy, crash safety, and probably reliability.

But cars in the 80s didn’t spy on you. Cars today do. That’s not superior.

Cars in the 80s were easier to work on. Cars today can require absurd things like dismounting the motor just to get to the spark plugs. That’s not superior.

Cars in the 80s had physical knobs and switches to control everything from turn signals, windshield wipers, defogger, radio volume, you name it. Cars today frequently have some or all of these features buried in a submenu on a touchscreen. Muscle memory? Forget it!

That’s not superior.

Good human!